Basic Information
- Refuse pits
Group Description
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- This group is formed of two Roman refuse pits, being cut and fills (1619)-[1620], and (1524)-[1525]. Underlying the Post Medieval agricultural soils, deposit (1619) was the fill of truncated Roman cut [1620], which was cut into pit fill (1626). The mixed nature of fill (1619) indicates that this was a refuse pit. The Post Medieval agricultural soils also sealed (1525), the fill of small rectangular pit [1524], that was cut into redeposited brick-earth layer (1633). This pit was heavily truncated, and its function was uncertain, but given its mixed fills it was likely to have been a refuse deposit.
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- Chaz Morse
- 27-10-2011
Dating Information
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- The heavily abraded inclusions from pit fill (1619) could not be dated, but given its stratigraphic position, the pit is seen as Roman. A total of nine pot sherds were recovered from fill (1525), all of which were dated to 100-140AD.
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- Chaz Morse
- 27-10-2011